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Fred Moten, with a mostly white beard and black glasses in front of a microphone
Chris Funkhouser Fred Moten
Literatures in English

Amiri Baraka’s poetry topic of March 31 Abrams talk

A&S Communications

M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.

Arts Quad view from a drone
Faculty excellence

Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

These professorships continue the College’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Classics students explore Sage chapel with instructor Verity Platt.
Active Learning

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

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Scott Pitnick/Syracuse University Fruit fly sperm with heads labelled with a red or a green fluorescent protein, swimming inside a female fruit fly’s reproductive tract.
Molecular Biology and Genetics

After mating, fruit fly sperm are no longer fully male

Cornell Chronicle

Long considered exclusively male, a new study revealed that by four days after a sperm enters a female fruit fly, close to 20% of its proteins are female-derived.

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
ESO/Babak Tafreshi/Provided The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope looks skyward during a bright, moonlit night on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s Atacama region, one of the highest and driest observatory sites in the world.
Astronomy research

Chasing data: Astronomers race to explore ancient galaxies

Cornell Chronicle

At a dizzying elevation in Chile, two astronomers had only hours left to collect data from light that had taken 11.5 billion years to reach Earth.

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Graduate student research

Doctoral student’s work featured in Oxford Handbook chapter

A&S Communications

The chapter is an introduction to the ideas and links between AI and politics.

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Provided Mark Kreynovich ’19 and Dillon Carroll ’20 in Ukraine in 2018
Alumni

Recent grads on a mission to support Ukraine

Cornell Chronicle

Mark Kreynovich ’19, who was born in Ukraine, and Dillon Carroll ’20 are bringing medical and other supplies to Ukraine, translating, and coordinating housing for refugees.

People walking through barriers
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 4.0 Ukrainian refugees enter Poland, March 2022
Refugees

Amid refugee announcement, Biden seeks to relieve a backlogged asylum system

A&S Communications

Cristina Maria Garcia, professor of history and Latino studies, comments on President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will admit 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

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vectored byFOX 52 Seal of the International Court of Justice.
War Crimes

U.S. can accuse Russia of war crimes, but prosecution will be elusive

A&S Communications

Professor Oumar Ba comments on the likelihood of Russians being prosecuted for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

David Esparza
David Esparza
Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: David Esparza

Cornell University Graduate School

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Esparza chose Cornell for his Ph.D. because of its commitment to evidence-based teaching methods, its continued support of undergraduate field science education, and the friendly culture at Cornell EEB.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Natalie Wolchover speaks March 15 in Lewis Auditorium.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Visiting journalist: Science writing is ‘good for the world’

Cornell Chronicle

On March 15, award-winning science journalist Natalie Wolchover, the College's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist, gave a master class on “Bringing Science to Life Through Storytelling.”

Liliana Colanzi
Romance studies

Professor’s book wins major literary prize

A&S Communications

A book by Liliana Colanzi won a prize honoring the best short stories in Latin American and Spain.

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Abruña Group A completely precious metal-free alkaline fuel cell using Co-Mn spinel oxide cathode and carbon-coated Ni anode
Sustainable energy

Carbon-coated nickel enables fuel cell free of precious metals

Cornell Chronicle

The new discovery could accelerate the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cells, which hold great promise as efficient, clean energy sources for vehicles and other applications.

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Graduate student life

Record High Attendance at Writing Boot Camp

Cornell University Graduate School

This year’s Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation Writing Boot Camp, hosted by Cornell University Graduate School, went virtual and broke records, drawing 400 writers from 50 institutions.

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Photo by Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash
International relations

Calling Ukrainian refugees more ‘civilized’ than Syrians requires willful amnesia

Washington Post

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Oumar Ba, writes that historical events such as wars and atrocities are treated as distant parts of Europe’s past.